This afternoon, the national football team led by Li Tie defeated the opponent 2-0 in a teaching match against Henan Jianye, which has been renamed Songshan Longmen. Although this game is just an ordinary warm-up game, it has a very special significance for a national football player, who is Jiang Zhipeng.
According to Shenzhen media reports, Jiang Zhipeng's father died in the early morning of March 28 due to illness. After getting this news, Jiang Zhipeng rushed back to his hometown of Qingdao for the first time to mourn for his father, and after dealing with his father's aftermath, Jiang Zhipeng immediately returned to the national team. In the warm-up match of the national football team held this afternoon, Jiang Zhipeng disregarded the pain of losing his father and strongly requested to represent the national football team in this warm-up match.
Although Jiang Zhipeng did not enter the starting lineup of the national football team, coach Li Tie replaced Jiang Zhipeng in the second half, and after the game, Jiang Zhipeng replaced Yu Dabao as the captain of the national football team, and finally the national football team defeated the Songshan Longmen team 2-0 in this game, relying on the two goals of naturalized striker Axon and Guoan midfielder Zhang Xizhe, and thus ushered in the 7th consecutive victory of the recent warm-up match of the national football team.
After this game, the national football coach Li Tie expressed his admiration for Jiang Zhipeng's professionalism through social media. In his social media account, he wrote: "Thanks to all the past players for their efforts! We dedicate the victory of this game to Jiang Zhipeng's father! On the 28th, Jiang Zhipeng's father died suddenly, the player took a leave of absence to return to Qingdao for two days, and rushed back to Shanghai immediately after dealing with the old man's affairs this morning, expressing a strong desire to participate in this national team game. I was very impressed! Proud to have such a team member! Proud to have such a team! Rest in peace for the dead, and strive for the living! ”
The 32-year-old Jiang Zhipeng debuted at Genbao Football School and has played for shanghai east asia, nanchang hengyuan, shanghai shenxin, Guangzhou R&F, Hebei Huaxia happiness and Shenzhen Kaisa in his career. In 2011, the 22-year-old Jiang Zhipeng was selected for the national Olympic team for the first time and participated in the qualifiers for the London Olympic Games with the national Olympic Games. Two years later, Jiang Zhipeng was called up to the national team by Camacho and made his debut in the warm-up match between the national football team and Uzbekistan, making his debut in the national team.
In December 2019, in the East Asian Final Four, the national football team and the Japanese team, Jiang Zhipeng's action of flying in the head of the Japanese player in the process of stealing caused a huge controversy. At that time, Jiang Zhipeng's action was condemned by many Japanese fans. However, from the slow-motion replay, Jiang Zhipeng did not mean to hurt his opponent, and his foot touched the ball first, and then kicked the head of the Japanese player.
Judging from his performance in the league over the past many years, Jiang Zhipeng is not a rough-helming player who likes to deliberately hurt people. This time, only two days after his father's death, he resolutely asked Miao to represent the national football team to participate in the competition, which also proved that Jiang Zhipeng's character was completely without problems. Here, I also hope that Jiang Zhipeng can get out of the shadow of his father's death as soon as possible, comfort his father's spirit in heaven with his outstanding performance in the national team, and help the national team win all 4 games in the group stage of the World Preliminary Round in June, and successfully reach the next stage of the round of 12.